Antonia Jiménez Trava

Antonia Jiménez Trava (25 February 1917 – 16 March 2011) was a Mexican attorney. She was the first female law graduate from UADY, and the first woman appointed to public office in Yucatán. She served as the first Director of the Civil Registry, the first President of the Electoral Institute of the State, and the first President of the Judiciary. She was a feminist, writing her dissertation on the legality of denying women the vote and when appointed to run the Civil Registry, she eliminated discriminatory texts from the marriage ceremony.

Biography Antonia Georgina Alemania Jiménez Trava was born on 25 February 1917 to Julio Jiménez Rivero and Pastora Trava Castilla in Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico. Her thesis was entitled "Women and Political and Civil Rights" examined inequality in society between genders and argued that the vote could not be denied women because the law did not distinguish between men and women politically.

In July 1941 she began working at the Labor Justice Group as Secretary of the Board of Conciliation and Arbitration and by 1964 had become the Board's president, a position she held until 1970.

She was a professor at the Faculty of Law from 1948 to 1984, taught at the High School of the University of Yucatán from 1965 to 1971, and gave lectures at the Escuela Normal Rodolfo Menéndez de la Peña (Teachers College of Rodolfo Menéndez de la Peña) in Mérida. Jiménez said that she won $1000 pesos from the magazine for submitting the changed wording, which she changed because it made women slaves to men.

In Mérida, there are streets, a neighborhood, and the Women's Lawyer's Association of the Yucatán are named for Jiménez Trava.